FISH AND CHIP FACTS

JOSEPH MALIN FRIST JOINED FISH WITH CHIPS IN HIS LONDON SHOP IN 1860.WORLD WAR 2 FISH AND CHIPS WERE AMONG FEW FOODS RATIOED .BRITS FOUND EACH OTHER ON D-DAY BY ANSWERING CALLS OF FISH AND CHIPS.IN CHINA THIER ARE SERVED WITH SUGAR SPRINKED ON TOP.NEWSPAPER WAS USED TO WRAP THEM UNTILL INK WAS RULED UNSAFE.BRITAIN HAS 10,500 FISH AND CHIP SHOPS AND JUST 1,249 MCDONALDS.

GODZILLA IN TOKYO

TOKYO HAS NAMED GODZILLA ,MOVIE MONSTER ,HAS WON RESIDENCY AS A HUGE MODEL OF ITS HEAD WHICH DRAWS CROWDS.

Dementiaville, episode 1, review: 'putting the focus back on patients'

So much of the current debate around dementia focuses on carers and the financial time bomb facing the NHS, that it can seem as if we lose sight of those actually suffering it. So it was good to see the start of Channel 4’s new three-part series Dementiaville put the focus back on patients, exploring both how they are affected and new treatment methods that ameliorate the sense of anxiety that can accompany the condition.

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Last night’s opener followed the work of specialist carers at Poppy Lodge near Leamington Spa, one of a handful of residential care homes in the UK that use a treatment known as the “butterfly household model”. This is a method that acknowledges rather than seeks to correct the fact that many dementia sufferers, faced with crumbling short-term memory, increasingly retreat into unique worlds of their own by returning to significant events in the past as if they were present reality.

There was no attempt to make 91-year-old Les Hadley – who spent part of every day searching the home for his “dear old dad” – understand that his father died 40 years ago. Instead carers engaged with Les’s memories, never-READ MORE-http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/11652158/Dementiaville-episode-1-review.html

Fright Club

Maverick has produced a new six part series for Sky 1, due to air in spring. Fright Club sees people with the same crippling fear or phobia join forces to overcome their problem once and for all –  from spiders, dogs and birds to heights, confined spaces and water.  Each week ten fellow sufferers will take part in an extreme form of exposure therapy that will involve them helping each other through their worst nightmare scenarios as they tackle their fear head on.  Psychologists Richard Reid and Dr Becky Spelman will be on hand to help as emotions and tensions run high…LINK-http://www.mavericktv.co.uk/news/fright-club-announced-for-sky-1/

HEDGEHOGS SAFE IN PARK

WHEN TAGGED IN REGENTS PARK,LONDON ,THEIR WERE FOUND TO ROAM UP TO A MILE A NIGHT NEVER LEAVE THE BOUNDARIES ,NOT LIKE THE ONES IN NEIGHBORING PARKS  HO HAVE BEEN WIPED OUT.THIS GROUP WERE WISE  TO TRAFFIC NOISE ,LEARNT TO AVOID BUSY ROADS ,THE GROUP IS 40 STRONG.

DAFT LAWS

A LAW DATING BACK TO 1872 MADE IT ILLEGAL FRO PUB LANDLORDS TO ALLOW DRUNKENNESS ON THEIR PREMISES NOT ENFORCED IN MODERN TIMES.HANDLING SALMON IN SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES -1986.CARRYING  A PLANK ALONG A PAVEMENT MADE A CRIME IN 1839.THESE WERE PART OF CRAZY LAWS POLL DONE TO  CELEBRATE  800 YEARS  ANNIVERSARY OF MAGNA CARTA

WHEEL BURROW GETS TICKET

 TRAFFIC WARDEN IN LEEDS GOT A BIT OVER ZEALOUS ,BY GIVING A WHEEL BURROW A TICKET DESPITE NO YELLOW LINES ON THE ROAD.